Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students often complain that Harvard professors are harder to find than a good dining hall meal. "Some people just use the University as a post office to pick up their mail," said Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade. "A university is a rather remarkable place. You hire professors and only a small percentage of work is prescribed.... I've always thought that's a funny way to run a railroad...
...turbulent politics of black Africa, arap Moi's ascension is almost unique. Said a State Department official: "We are witnessing a succession achieved without violence or the threat of violence. All the prophets of doom have been proved wrong." An editorial in Zambia's Daily Mail concluded: "If the old man came back from the dead, he would be very pleased with himself...
Action Lines in attendance also raised their own awareness. They learned that mail-order merchandise is the most common target for complaints (followed by automobiles, home repairs, government agencies, utility companies, landlords and retail stores). The columnists were only dimly aware of the magnitude of the mailorder problem until their get-together. Then passing mention of the phrase "five towels for a dollar" sent a tidal wave of groans across the hall...
Robbie Fidler, 25, who writes the Manhattan (Kans.) Mercury's What About It? column, recalls a woman who ordered 1,000 African night crawlers from a Texas worm farm. Lost in the mail, came the complaint. "It's interesting to think that nobody would have noticed 1,000 night crawlers loose in the mail," she muses. Fidler traced them, and found they had not been sent. After several calls, the wife of the proprietor finally blurted tearfully that her husband had left on a business trip some weeks earlier and never returned. Fidler decided that problem was beyond...
...dogs romp ahead, Cheever acknowledges that he is more accessible, more willing to appear in public than in the past: "I began getting out more when I realized that I'm not only dependent on readers, I rely on their response." He was especially pleased by the mail he received after Falconer was published last year. "A book about a homicidal, fratricidal drug addict," he says, shaking his head. "I got perhaps two crank letters. The rest were thoughtful comments from concerned, well-informed men and women...